How to Use less than in a Sentence

less than

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  • Generic and store-brand supplies can cost less than name brands.
    — Amy Kawata, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • But most lecturers are not full-time and make less than half that amount.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The stock, while on the mend, has recovered less than half of its loss since then.
    — Harvey Stober, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026
  • And less than none is presumably the plot of Refn’s next film.
    — Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 3 Aug. 2026
  • In less than a minute, Blair Imani can teach you a thing or two about the world.
    — Shannon Carlin, Time, 14 July 2026
  • The price still is still 8 cents less than a month ago, but 86 cents more than a year ago.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 July 2026
  • There are less than five months left in the life of the 119th Congress.
    — William Becker, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Thus, nearly every part of your face is nourished for less than $4 apiece.
    — Essence Wiley, InStyle, 26 Aug. 2026
  • That’s less than a quarter of the passengers who used the service last month.
    — Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026
  • And that is less than the $1 million he was expected to make in college.
    — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 31 Aug. 2026
  • However, the odds of a person being struck are less than one in a million.
    — Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
  • Chicago is bracing for another heat wave, less than two weeks after the last one.
    — Tara Molina, CBS News, 13 July 2026
  • She was released in June after serving less than a quarter of the nine years.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Yes, Williams is out of the singles draw after losing to a woman less than half her age.
    — Dan Zaksheske, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
  • Smokejumpers can reach anywhere in mainland Alaska in less than two hours.
    — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Employing part-time workers costs less than having full-timers on the payroll.
    — Paul Osterman, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The changes come less than two months after a 13-year-old boy climbed out of a log flume and fell 50 feet.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • No fee is charged if the item amount is less than or equal to $5 or your account is overdrawn by $20 or less.
    — Dan Avery, CNBC, 14 July 2026
  • Right now, shoppers are stocking up on gorgeous dresses in spades for less than $50.
    — Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
  • The number has increased to more than five times the original deployment in less than a year.
    — Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 14 July 2026
  • Post-event follow-up is less than 1% of total message volume across every church size.
    — Vijesh Mehta, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • In 1978, his salary, less than a hundred thousand a year, was paid by his father.
    — Kai Bird, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
  • And until that is corrected, the on-field results will continue to be less than the sum of the parts.
    — Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • Yet, Towns probably shouldn’t be asked to take a considerable amount less than the max.
    — James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • This achievement came after four opening weekend screenings sold out in less than an hour, a full year ahead of release.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2026
  • That is less than half as many as the set that produced many of his signature smashes and turned him into a chart-topper.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Matheson is the third person in less than a week to be killed by a lightning strike in Florida.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
  • That makes the first part of Wednesday night less than ideal for meteor watching in many areas.
    — Joe Ruch, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • In the meantime, measles immunization rates among kindergarteners have fallen by less than one per cent.
    — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2026
  • But the hauls weren’t always the same; in one of them the thieves made off only with a fake diamond worth less than $200.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2026

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